That is exactly the parent's point, that while those things could bring in revenue, the competition in those industries is already incredibly fierce. And that's before potential new entrants into the space on the AI front. Even in the best of cases I don't think anyone is gonna be able to pull anything other than middling margins.
I'm not saying they should or will give up on these markets, just that their margins aren't likely to be great.
There's already so much AI porn right now. There's no reason to believe that OpenAI will be any better or able to command higher margins than their competitors. They also
have the problem of being under a ton of public and regulatory scrutiny so the highest paying clientele, the people with niche unsavory fetishizes, won't be able
to be serviced by them.
And that's ignoring the fact that getting into this space at all is pure HN speculation and unlikely to ever happen anyway.
